On 29-Jun-99 Carl Fink wrote: > [This message has also been posted.] > I have a system that was installed from a Debian 2.0 CD-ROM, with > many packages upgraded to 2.1 or unstable via the web site. > > One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my > .bashrc and .bash_profile files are never read. Now, I realize that > I'm actually using xterm, but I always assumed xterm was some sort of > graphical shell for bash, especially since xterms show up in top or > ps as "bash". >
bashrc should be read at all times. bash_profile is only read if the xterm (or whatever) is called as a login shell, i.e. xterm -ls.